tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.comments2018-07-15T07:59:31.595+01:00some LANDSCAPESPliniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comBlogger770125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-72464565435963284912018-04-30T17:16:35.190+01:002018-04-30T17:16:35.190+01:00Having found a French text, it turns out the offen...Having found a French text, it turns out the offending phrase is &quot;arbres géants&quot; ... Hilarious.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-15644485797236063962018-04-28T14:29:39.739+01:002018-04-28T14:29:39.739+01:00It turns out the original journal is in French (&q...It turns out the original journal is in French (&quot;Mon Journal&quot;) and not in Russian, and in multiple &quot;redacted&quot; versions... I am still determined to discover how &quot;arabs&quot; and &quot;vegetation&quot; are in any way synonyms, however.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-13684226114309376512018-04-28T12:30:43.109+01:002018-04-28T12:30:43.109+01:00Thanks - I don&#39;t know any Russian!
I have a su...Thanks - I don&#39;t know any Russian!<br />I have a suspicion that &#39;arabs&#39; is some kind of error and that she was basically just talking about gigantic trees. The &#39;arabs&#39; translation can be seen <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ieRPFgBPYIAC&amp;pg=PA248&amp;lpg=PA248&amp;dq=pure+sky,+brooks,+rose+laurels&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=VCmzIZtDYr&amp;sig=DICDY661DsbrtEMBVCZg5Bm9NyM&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi09vWl7tzaAhXKLsAKHdx0DGYQ6AEIUTAH#v=onepage&amp;q=pure%20sky%2C%20brooks%2C%20rose%20laurels&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The &#39;vegetation&#39; version is <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheJournalOfMarieBashkirtseffTranslatedWithAnIntroductionBy" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Pliniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-29062938776652685812018-04-28T11:09:06.328+01:002018-04-28T11:09:06.328+01:00Curious... I know a little Russian, and was intrig...Curious... I know a little Russian, and was intrigued by the &quot;gigantic vegetation / arab&quot; crux, so looked for an online version of her journal. Having found the entry for 20 June 1882, I discovered it matches exactly the translation you give, *except* that it ends &quot;So there is nothing to do but deplore my sex&quot; (&quot;Итак, остается оплакивать свой пол.&quot;) -- no Granada, no gigantic arabs, nothing. I presume it has been edited out of the online version (?), but that does seem odd.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-61959131082875272922018-04-12T01:27:22.703+01:002018-04-12T01:27:22.703+01:00After visiting the Paul Nash exhibition in York, t...After visiting the Paul Nash exhibition in York, this winter, I too published a blogpost about this artist (https://alisonhobbs.blogspot.ca/2018/03/the-art-gallery-in-york.html), whose landscapes I like very much, although, before visiting the exhibition and reading the notes, I hadn&#39;t realised how dark his thoughts were in those days.Alison Hobbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12678010452784368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-59142020592954163412018-03-30T19:46:35.889+01:002018-03-30T19:46:35.889+01:00Fascinating!Fascinating!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-22642671085593270562018-03-03T18:57:35.495+00:002018-03-03T18:57:35.495+00:00The Utah picture is beautiful. Thanks for pointing...The Utah picture is beautiful. Thanks for pointing me to it: http://de.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2018/february/07/ralph-rugoff-takes-us-around-his-andreas-gursky-show/uair01https://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-44636516684570127642018-03-03T10:21:01.513+00:002018-03-03T10:21:01.513+00:00We visited the show a couple of weeks ago on a Sat...We visited the show a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday afternoon, and I was amazed at how many people were there (perhaps this is what Londoners do on a Saturday afternoon? We came up from Southampton, where Saturday afternoon&#39;s alright for shopping...). Since the fuss about &quot;Rhine II&quot; he has clearly gone up several notches in public awareness.<br /><br />I&#39;ve been aware of Gursky for a long time, but had never seen the work &quot;live&quot;, and was astonished at quite how big it is. Unnecessarily so, really: the resolution of the work generally breaks down on closer inspection, so the impression of seething detail within the landscape is often illusory. Smaller prints (oh, let&#39;s say, just *ten* feet across...) would give both the broad brush impression and preserve the photographic detail.<br /><br />We, too, didn&#39;t warm to some of the later, constructed works (although I really liked the &quot;four chancellors&quot;). As so often with constructed photography, it seems to expose the shortcomings of an artist who is essentially a &quot;noticer&quot; of the real world when trying to become a creator of imagined worlds without lapsing into kitsch or cliché. The required skillsets are equal, but different, and rarely possessed by the same person.<br /><br />Great show, though. My partner loved &quot;Krefeld, Chickens&quot;, a mere A3 or so in size...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-23429019403415802812018-03-02T11:02:31.713+00:002018-03-02T11:02:31.713+00:00Thanks Mike I will do that in future. It&#39;s a ...Thanks Mike I will do that in future. It&#39;s a shame there isn&#39;t a general setting for it, but I guess you have to do it this way as it&#39;s part of the html.Pliniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-73919104827117446632018-03-02T09:17:21.965+00:002018-03-02T09:17:21.965+00:00An &quot;off topic&quot; comment, as they say: You...An &quot;off topic&quot; comment, as they say: You may not be bothered by this, but are you aware that following a link from within your posts opens it in the same tab as your post? Personally, I find this disruptive of the flow of reading, and I&#39;m sure *some* readers may choose to carry on down the rabbit-hole that has opened up, rather than return.<br /><br />This is easily fixed. In Blogger, the dialogue that embeds the link includes a tickbox &quot;Open this link in a new window&quot;. Tick this, and both your post and the linked content will be open in separate browser tabs.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-27852046891818457202018-02-06T18:17:15.339+00:002018-02-06T18:17:15.339+00:00Bravo for your excellent blog.
You could find an i...Bravo for your excellent blog.<br />You could find an imaginary landscape, shoted at Parc Naturel de la Narbonnaise (France)<br /><br />https://beyond-the-coda.blogspot.fr/2017/03/scale-of-expanse.html<br /><br />enjoy<br /><br />PalixPalixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05508579333617188157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-47373106346628533342018-02-06T12:30:14.773+00:002018-02-06T12:30:14.773+00:00These are lovely to read. Thank you. I&#39;d like ...These are lovely to read. Thank you. I&#39;d like to share with you one experience and insight while walking in the Alpilles above St Remy. It was a clear blue day. We call it Alpille Blue. Not a cloud to be seen in the sky - or if there was a tentative attempt at cloud it dissolved as quickly as it formed. Nothing was moving - even the tops of the firs were rigid. And yet - and yet - the Mistral was blowing up a gale, buffeting every part of our bodies - the wind was so forceful it played us - went to the core of us..... until there was nothing, not even us - only the wind. And then I thought, this is what Van Gogh painted. He painted the wind. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-25059889914818599172018-01-28T09:31:32.368+00:002018-01-28T09:31:32.368+00:00The penguin may not be disinterested. His body sha...The penguin may not be disinterested. His body shape was so inflexible that if he tried to rock and roll to the music, he would have fallen over. <br /><br />On the other hand, penguins may have been unused to the sound that bagpipes made. It was always an acquired taste.Helsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-27179427113945338662018-01-14T20:57:10.841+00:002018-01-14T20:57:10.841+00:00This week, in the &quot;Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazi...This week, in the &quot;Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin&quot; (German), a article was published about Simon Abdāl Hamīd Fitzwilliam-Hall. He had a blog called &quot;fen-edge encounters&quot;. You might find that interesting. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-70163010627681776622018-01-14T09:03:27.216+00:002018-01-14T09:03:27.216+00:00Thanks Alison. I hope it&#39;s interesting for oth...Thanks Alison. I hope it&#39;s interesting for others; it certainly is for me, as I am discovering some new work as well as posting favourites like yesterday&#39;s Johan Christian Dahl landscape which I once saw in Oslo. Very aware though how inadequate a tweeted image is to reresent a large painting like that one.Pliniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-71188041804927396002018-01-14T01:33:23.070+00:002018-01-14T01:33:23.070+00:00What an excellent idea! I have just found your pic...What an excellent idea! I have just found your picture-tweets posted so far this year, and particularly like the floodplain by Ravilious. <br /><br />Thanks for drawing our attention to this venture on your blog.Alison Hobbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12678010452784368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-35164850766039955512017-12-29T20:56:24.039+00:002017-12-29T20:56:24.039+00:00Glad you liked the book.Glad you liked the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-27583662152568996282017-12-09T08:13:59.595+00:002017-12-09T08:13:59.595+00:00Goethe, Italian Journey:
Pliny in the fifth chapte...Goethe, Italian Journey:<br />Pliny in the fifth chapter of the third book of his <br />natural history distinguishes Campania as alone worthy <br />of a minute description: &quot;So happy, so graceful, so <br />blessed are those lands,&quot; says he, &quot; that, you perceive how <br />in this place nature rejoices in her work. Admire this <br />pleasure of life, this ever salutary mildness of the sky, <br />these so fruitful fields, so sunny hills, .so indestructible <br />plantations, so shady groves, so serviceable woods, so <br />breezy mountains, so wide-extended crops, such luxu- <br />riance of grapes and oleaginous trees, such superlative <br />fleeces, such fat-necked bullocks, such copious lakes, such <br />wealth of irrigating streams and springs, such abundance <br />of seas, such abundance of harbours ! (...)&quot;<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-70182449591032222122017-11-12T00:27:07.507+00:002017-11-12T00:27:07.507+00:00I found a couple of examples of Zhang Hongtu&#39;s...I found a couple of examples of Zhang Hongtu&#39;s &quot;Re-make(s) of Ma Yuan&#39;s Water Album (780 Years Later)&#39; online and they are gorgeous, if troubling, modern views of China&#39;s great waters. I especially love both artist&#39;s representations of the Yellow River. tobymarxhttp://upfromthedeep.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-16686232607146460782017-11-11T23:58:15.815+00:002017-11-11T23:58:15.815+00:00Well, I read the critique. &quot;This pea souper o...Well, I read the critique. &quot;This pea souper of a show nearly achieves the impossible feat of making Monet seem dull, while illuminating little about British links to impressionism&quot;. and &quot;Unfortunately, I must soberly report that Tate Britain has created the worst show about the impressionists I have ever seen.&quot;<br /><br />But that was a bit silly of the Guardian critic. If the exhibition had been called &quot;French Artists in a New Country&quot;, instead of &quot;Impressionists in London&quot;, there would have been more of an analysis of the Frenchmen&#39;s experiences in a foreign country and less of how the British learned Impressionism. I thought the Sisleys, Monets, Pissarros and Tissots were fascinating.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-65962140801754911232017-11-10T21:57:15.622+00:002017-11-10T21:57:15.622+00:00Thanks Ken - yes to all this. Well worth visiting...Thanks Ken - yes to all this. Well worth visiting - Mrs Plinius has now been too and very much enjoyed it.Pliniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-89528382032867745642017-11-10T10:04:13.271+00:002017-11-10T10:04:13.271+00:00I agree that this is a wonderful exhibition, Andre...I agree that this is a wonderful exhibition, Andrew, which continues until the 10 December, but also agree that the film by Guido van de Werve is somewhat risible, a waste of terrific filming commemorating a tragic story, trivialised by attaching it to a Triathlon exercise (surely not a metaphor?). The Lancaster bombing recording is unearthly and humbling.<br /><br />Ken Worpolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840029412888671566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-38081354412007730202017-10-21T18:04:23.284+01:002017-10-21T18:04:23.284+01:00which a fairly primitive son et lumiere experience...which a fairly primitive son et lumiere experience was laid on for us tourists. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://myseriespostcollections.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">เย็ดสาว</a>roth phallykahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07056159688537638797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-45368747594010842622017-10-08T13:06:44.644+01:002017-10-08T13:06:44.644+01:00Those caves are magical. I had the pleasure and pr...Those caves are magical. I had the pleasure and privilege of reading to a packed audience in Vilenica Cave as part of the Vilenica International Poetry Festival a few years ago, in the karst region of Slovenia. Unforgettable (&amp; very cold).<br />Gerry Looseghttp://gerryloose.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-78545071793413280052017-10-08T11:32:50.337+01:002017-10-08T11:32:50.337+01:00In 1970 I visited some caves on Majorca with an un...In 1970 I visited some caves on Majorca with an underground lake (probably Cuevas del Drach) in which a fairly primitive son et lumiere experience was laid on for us tourists. At one point, all lights were extinguished, and the guide proclaimed that this was probably the first time we had experienced total darkness. An effect spoiled by the eerie glow from the then fashionable luminous watches worn by various parties.<br /><br />I&#39;m not sure about the geology, but I&#39;ve always found the idea that the whole Mediterranean area could be linked by secret underground limestone caverns and waterways intriguing, in a Dan Brown-ish sort of way.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.com